Internet Explorer has this "wonderful" feature call compatibility mode. I think the majority of web designers that have run into this gem would likely feel that Microsoft misnamed this feature.
After a great deal of frustration and delays caused by having the compatibility mode suddenly turn on an... [More]

It’s been a while since I posted last so I thought I would throw my blog a bone… Once again I was looking for a good B-Tree implementation in C# on the net but came up empty. In the hopes of simplifying other developer’s lives I’ve created a generic B-Tree librar... [More]

With the Google’s release of the Android phone 2D symbolic encoding to make your website phone friendly is enjoying some additional attention. Simply point your Android, I-Phone, or Windows Mobile phone camera, with an appropriate app, at the image below and data will be instantly loaded... [More]

…or how to take advantage of the IIS 7.0 Integrated Pipeline mode. In this article we are presenting a module library for IIS 7.0 that gives full control over how IIS handles URLs. The ASP.NET URLRewriter library allows a web developer to specify and handle just about any type of URL scheme. [More]

Put together a Silverlight application to display SharePoint list data without using Visual Studio. A simple Silverlight library you can use in Microsoft Expression Blend to read SharePoint list data and display it in any Silverlight control. Even your mom can do it! [More]

Here is a new email template library that makes it dead easy for your web application to send the most professional looking email using as little as three lines of code.
Sending plain text email from your web application has always been relatively easy using the SmtpClient, but most web appl... [More]

Silverlight can be used to enhance the user experience for SharePoint users. Most data stored in SharePoint can be displayed directly by existing Silverlight controls and/or the controls available in the Silverlight Toolkit available on Codeplex. The exception to this is the displaying of... [More]

The art of user interface design has been around for as long as people have built and used tools. Here are 9 well known user interface design principles you can use to help ensure that your application or web site is designed to allow vistors get the best experience possible. [More]

In Part Two of this series we expanded on the out-of-the-box connectivity to the SharePoint Lists web service and added the ability to dynamically connect to any SharePoint server URL. In this article we will make a more complex call to retrieve list detail and show how data retrieved fro... [More]

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I'd like to introduce myself to you... My name is Aaron Daisley-Harrison. I have worked in the software engineering field for a number of years, and as an Application Architect have created solutions for many industry verticals; worked with both Java and Microsoft technologies; Developed SQL database engines as well as full text search systems; and Knowledge management systems. I am currently doing contract work out of the Pacific North West and have lately been focusing on Microsoft technologies like SharePoint 2007/2010, WCF, Identity Framework, JQuery, Xml and Silverlight.[more]